Subject Guide: Business Stock Reports/Price Data

This guide lists sources which provide information
and access to company stock reports and historical price data.
Stock reports are available for any U.S. company that is publicly
traded. If a company is a subsidiary of a parent company, look for
stock reports/price data of the parent company since the subsidiary's
information is not reported separately.

For further information & assistance in using any
of the sources listed, please contact our reference staff:

In person, at the Reference Desk on the 1st
Floor of the Blackwell Library

(Gale) Business Insights: Essentials [10 seats shared with
consortium]
Provides Investext reports researched by leading stock analysts.
Off-campus, sign in using your Gull Card barcode and last name.
Choose Salisbury University as the campus and then click the log in
button.

Click on the 'Company' icon from the main screen.

Enter the company name or ticker symbol, choose 'ultimate parent',
and click the 'search' button at the bottom of the screen.

Click your company name on the results list.

At the top of the screen are various tabs to company
information--choose 'Investment Reports'.

Review reports which vary based on the investment firm.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
Off-campus, sign in using your Gull Card barcode and last name.
Choose Salisbury University as the campus and then click the log in
button.

From L-N's front page, click on the 'Business' category on the left
tool-bar.

Mergent Online
Blackwell Library subscribes to the U.S. Company/International Company
Data modules.

Off-campus, sign in using your Gull Card barcode and last name.
Choose Salisbury University as the campus and then click the log in
button.

Do a 'Basic Search' for the company name or ticker symbol.

Click on the company name on the next search screen.

Click on the various tabs across the top for detailed information
(Company Details--Capital Stock, TearSheets).

Morningstar
[2 seats]
Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities with
historical data back to 1996. Off-campus, sign in using your Gull
Card barcode and last name. Choose Salisbury University as the
campus and then click the log in button.

ASE, NASDAQ, & NYSE company reports are provided together in 2
volumes. Provides a detailed listing of key income statement and
balance sheet items and an analysis of the most recent earnings
report. The reports also provide data on dividends, stock
price ranges, capitalization, management and significant recent
developments.

ValueLine Database
This database is only available in the Blackwell Library
Reference Area. Ask the reference staff to sign you on.

Note:
Provides the exact same information as is available in the ValueLine
Database above.

See volume 1, summary and index in the front, and look up the
name of your company.

It will refer you to a page number in one of 13 editions.

See industry information in that edition, followed by
evaluations of each company covered.

Yahoo! Finance
The market summary covered on the home page. To locate information
for a specific company, enter the ticker symbol in the search box at the
top of the page (use symbol lookup if the ticker symbol is unknown).

Each quarterly book is divided into 2 parts. Part I,
"Major Technical Indicators of the Stock Market." Part II,
"Daily and Weekly Stock Action," gives the daily and weekly
record of stocks listed on each exchange.

Today's WSJ is located in the newspaper section of the Current
Periodicals on the 1st Floor of Blackwell Library.Current issues are retained in paper until microfilm arrives.

Electronic Copies:

Historical Wall Street Journal (Proquest)Off-campus, sign in using your Gull Card barcode and last name.
Choose Salisbury University as the campus and then click the log in
button.

This database provides full-text and full-image
articles from the Wall Street Journal covering the period
1889-1989. The collection includes digital reproductions
of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in
downloadable PDF files.

Enter a date below the search box.

Enter a search in the search box based on the
stock exchange you need (do not enter a company name):
New York Stock Exchange Transactions
American Stock Exchange Transactions
Over the Counter Markets

Click on Article Image PDF. Use the
printer icon in Adobe to print.

To browse section C contents, click on Page
Map. At the top of the screen, you can click on next or
previous page.

Use microfilm copies for the period
1990-current.

Yahoo! Finance
The market summary covered on the home page. To locate information
for a specific company, enter the ticker symbol in the search box at the
top of the page (use symbol lookup if the ticker symbol is unknown).
On the company's page, click on the link to 'Historical Prices' on the
left toolbar. Allows downloading to excel.